‘Crime and Justice’ Archives

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James Anderson
Patrol Sergeant, Berthoud Squad
Thursday, January 1
Missing Juvenile: 800 10th Street, a father called to report that his 14 year old daughter went out with a friend on New Year's eve but she had not returned home.
Mental Health Hold: 100 block of Keep Circle, a resident called to report a disturbance between her two sons.
Suspicious: 600 block of Mountain Avenue, a resident reported that she felt someone was in her house. Nothing found.
Frozen
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James Anderson
Patrol Sergeant, Berthoud Squad
Monday, December 1
Theft of Automobile Parts: 1100 block of 6th St Court, a resident reported someone stole the tailgate from his Ford F150.
Criminal Trespass: 500 block of 6th St, a resident reported someone entered his vehicle and stole items out of the vehicle. Please don't leave valuables in your vehicle.
Violation of Protection Order: 4th Street/Water Ave, a 23 year old man was contacted as a passenger on
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James Anderson
Patrol Sergeant, Berthoud Squad
Saturday, November 1
Family Problems: 800 block of Gentlewind Way, a resident wanted to report that her ex-husband has been emailing her several times.
Habitual Traffic Offender/Defective headlamp/Defective Brake Lamp: 2nd Street & Bunyan Avenue, a 25 year old man was contacted for defective headlamp and brake lamp. He was found to be Revoked HTO.
Tampering/ Obstruction: 10th Street/Welch Avenue, an unknown suspect took
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Lt. Col. Robert Bateman challenges the NRA
By Demi Moaned
It's been some time now since I added Charles Pierce's 'The Politics Blog' over at Esquire to my daily blogroll. His righteous indignation coupled with his madcap prose stylings are sui generis and often hilarious. But, although Pierce is the proprietor and primary contributor to the blog, other writers are sometimes featured. Among them is a semi-regular whom I've come to increasingly appreciate named Lt. Col. Robert
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Fox News 'Hero' Cliven Bundy Is a Pampered Millionaire, Not a Rugged Rancher
Watching Fox rally to the defense of moneyed interests like mining and ranching is unbearable.
The latest right-wing media poster-victim, Cliven Bundy, is just the latest in a long line of desert dwellers who thinks he or she should not have to follow the law and has a god-given right to unlimited use of public resources, in this case, rangeland. I know the mentality well, because I grew up in rural Nevada
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Cliven Bundy Epitomizes Nearly Everything That’s Wrong with Conservatives -
By Allen Clifton
Cliven Bundy is nothing more than a mentally unstable individual who doesn’t want to pay the fees he’s accumulated for the laws he’s repeatedly violated. He’s also becoming quite the conservative icon. Why is he becoming an icon? Because he’s an anti-government whack job who’s gathered other anti-government whack jobs on his land in the truest form of the ridiculous
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The Larimer County Sheriff's Office has formally chosen the new squad of deputies tasked with providing the Town of Berthoud law enforcement services. The unit will consist of a Sergeant, four patrol deputies and one School Resource Officer (SRO). The members of the squad are as follows: Sergeant Jim Anderson, Deputy Kandis Dacus, Deputy Kevin Kingston, Deputy Chris Wenrick, Deputy Steve Wicker and Deputy Eric Schultz will be the new SRO.
When asked about the new squad and his role
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Are George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn "protecting" us?
By Martha Rosenberg (about the author)
The pro-gun lobby has successfully changed the gun violence argument from asking how mass shooters pass background checks and buy guns legally to why weren't there more guns around. Almost every mass shooter from Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech), James Holmes (Aurora), Jared Loughner (Tucson) and Stephen Phillip Kazmierczak (Northern Illinois University) to the more recent shooters, Aaron
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Turning a Wedding Into a Funeral: U.S. Drone Strike in Yemen Killed as Many as 12 Civilians
Investigation reveals that 12 civilians were killed when a U.S. drone targeted a wedding procession in Yemen.
By Amy Goodman & Juan González
Human Rights Watch has revealed as many as 12 civilians were killed in December when a U.S. drone targeted vehicles that were part of a wedding procession going toward the groom’s village outside the central Yemeni
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